M.A. in Management Curriculum
Academic Requirements
Courses are conducted both online and in a low-residency format face-to-face, reaching an international audience and allowing you to work and pursue the degree regardless of your location. In addition, our low-residency sessions will provide face-to-face interaction and fieldwork with faculty and other students in the program twice a year in January and late July.
Students build a portfolio of work that draws on their management courses as well as from their choice of coursework from Goucher's other professional master's degree programs, including cultural sustainability, digital arts, or environmental studies.
Management Required Courses (22.5 credits)
- PMGT 608: Principles of Project Management (3 credits)
- PMGT 610: Strategic Management (3 credits)
- PMGT 616: Financial Skills & Managerial Accounting (3 credits)
- PMGT 617: Principles of Marketing (3 credits)
- PMGT 618: Economic Principles for Managers (3 credits)
- Professional Development, one is required:
- Organizational Development (3 credits), one is required:
- Legal Frameworks (3 credits), one is required:
Electives (16.5 credits)
Of the 16.5 credits of electives required, a minimum of nine credits should come from outside the management curriculum, including courses from Goucher’s graduate programs in cultural sustainability, digital arts, or environmental studies.
Management Elective Courses (7.5 credits)
- PMGT 601: Self-development: Leadership Styles (3 credits)
- PMGT 605: Digital Ethics and Intellectual Property (3 credits)
- PMGT 606: Managing an Organization (3 credits)
- PMGT 611: Communications
- PMGT 614: Integrated Marketing Communications (3 credits)
- PMGT 620: Leadership and Self-development II: The Creative Professional (1.5 credits)
- PMGT 621: Fundraising (1.5 credits)
- PMGT 623: Grant Writing (1.5 credits)
- PMGT 625: Organizational Law (3 credits)
- PMGT 626: Nonprofit Leadership and Management (3 credits)
- PMGT 630: Designing and Delivering a Learning Experience (1.5 credits)
- PMGT 631: Public Administration (3 credits)
- PMGT 636: Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
- PMGT 638: Innovation in the Social Sector (3 credits)
- PMGT 641: Social Networks and New Media (1.5 credits)
- PMGT 643: Writing for Different Audiences (3 credits)
- PMGT 644: Strategies for Reaching the Media (3 credits)
- PMGT 650: Models of Social Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
- PMGT 652: Performance Management and Organizational Development (3 credits)
- PMGT 675: Practicum (6 credits)
Non-Management Elective Courses (9 credits)
NOTE: Students will work with their advisors to select the appropriate set of courses and will need to secure instructor approval to register for non-PMGT courses.
- CSP 600: Cultural Sustainability (3 credits)
- CSP 605: Cultural Policy (3 credits)
- CSP 615: Cultural Partnership (3 credits)
- CSP 625: Festivals, Events, and Performances (3 credits)
- CSP 630: Community and Economic Development (3 credits)
- CSP 640: Exhibits, Real and Virtual (3 credits)
- CSP 650: Organizing Communities: Advocacy, Activism, and Social Justice (3 credits)
- DA 560: Camera Techniques (1.5 credits)
- DA 610: Media on the Internet (3 credits)
- DA 650: 2D-Design for Print and Web (1.5 credits)
- DA 515: Digital Imaging (1.5 credits)
- DA 617: Contemporary Storytelling (3 credits)
- DA 665: Interactivity (3 credits)
- DA 670: Web Development (3 credits)
- ENV 623: Environment, Culture and Community (3 credits)
- ENV 615: Environmental Communications (3 credits)
- ENV 621: Environmental Governance (3 credits)
- ENV 622: Environmental Justice (3 credits)
- ENV 630: Public Participation (3 credits)
- ENV 634: Environment, Development, and Economics (3 credits)